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bucolic_frolic

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17. We led with our chin

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Jun 24, 2017, 12:15 PM

Jun 2017

Yes, rights for the oppressed are important. LGBTQ rights are as important as
any minority.

Washington telling people who can and where to go to the bathroom did not play well
among uneducated rural populations.

We lost a culture war.

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Culture not economics determined the 2016 race [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 OP

Agreed cilla4progress Jun 2017 #1

We win without them DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 #3

Kick. dalton99a Jun 2017 #2

Yep. CincyDem Jun 2017 #4

In other words our coalition is bigger but not as unified. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 #9

Right-leaning cultural values, left-leaning economic ones. roamer65 Jun 2017 #5

And the Nazi propaganda machine was nothing compared to RW radio and faux news Va Lefty Jun 2017 #7

It's National Socialism without the Socialism. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 #8

Solid points. H2O Man Jun 2017 #10

The Nazis were capitalists. They opposed liberals, socialists and communists. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #22

Culture includes economics. H2O Man Jun 2017 #6

I doubt anyone would argue differently , JHan Jun 2017 #12

Economics is part of culture. Nt FBaggins Jun 2017 #11

One can be culturally conservative and economically liberal. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 #13

One can also be liberal on some cultural issues and not on others FBaggins Jun 2017 #23

I think he won because of Russia, not culture. Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #14

I think he won because of Comey. That likely wan't the intention of his actions but the result. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 #16

That certainly played a part. But the hacking is what made it so close, so that Comey's Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #20

Don't forget Hill won the pop vote but the dip hurt her in the EC. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 #21

Culture read as: racist, sexist, homophobic Saviolo Jun 2017 #15

We led with our chin bucolic_frolic Jun 2017 #17

This is supported by an interesting study of aggregated search data correlated with voting Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #18

Of course. And the culture wars wouldn't work without GOP media - Fox, right-wing radio sharedvalues Jun 2017 #19